West Africa · Country operations profile
Post-election tension and security-force incidents, urban flooding and landslide hazard, mining-community disputes, and health-system fragility.
To support livelihood activities through provision of tools for value addition and development of IVS to increase production and marketing.
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Irrespective of the massive campaign against animal cruelty, it still remains a concern in my country. Funding this initiative will provide the basis for devising animal cruelty prevention mechanisms that will substantially reduce animal cruelties and also improves their health. The community members too will benefit form this project. For instance, the award of scholarship to their children as a way of encouraging them to be kind to animals will help provide the child's right to education
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Storm, rain and flood disaster strikes hard. It strikes particularly hard for those living in poverty. Personal and family recovery is difficult when governments are not in a position to provide any support. Families end up being devastated and scare resources are further depleted. This project will provide humanitarian support to help families and communities get back on track. Funds will go towards food, emergency help, cleanup efforts, fixing roofs, restoring damaged property etc.
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AdvocAid will provide legal aid, literacy classes and critical welfare support to 450 vulnerable girls & women detained in prisons across Sierra Leone.
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PROJECT GOAL To strengthen cooperation, rights and equality for women Specific objectives: The main goal of this project is to address heightened levels of discrimination and violence against Women by enhancing advocacy and networking capacities among Women groups and promoting coordination for increased success in anti-discrimination and violence campaigns in Sierra Leone.
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Create opportunities for decent jobs and secure livelihoods. Create better government policies and fair and accountable public institutions. Promote inclusive and sustainable business practices.
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To enable the planning for the development of the livestock sector from an informed perspective
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To contribute to the achievement of Pillar number 8 in the Governments Agenda for Prosperity which focuses on: Gender and women?s empowerment
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To improve capacity of rural communities in the establishment and management of fishponds.
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To increase nutrition and income level among the targeted communities to be used as a revolving fund in their community.
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To provide start up fund that will support the establisment of poultry to be used by the community for nutritional and income basis.
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Account for Administrative Facility - FAO/IFAD Framework Agreement
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Violence which includes torture, stoning, unnecessary killings and other forms of human cruelty against animals is notorious in this part of the world. Reason being that there are no specific laws governing the treatment of animals. The passing of an animal protection legislation will no doubt serve as an animal cruelty preventive mechanism, thus reducing the brutal sufferings of animals in the hands of men.
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Sierra Leone has one of the highest infant and child mortality rates in the world and one of the lowest literacy rates. YOU can make a difference for the children in Sierra Leone by providing them with much needed daily vitamins and preventative medicines, along with an opportunity to attend school. We operate a children's home, school and medical clinic in Sierra Leone that provides children with food, an education and medical care - preparing them for the future and keeping them healthy.
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The disabled of Sierra Leone are rejected physically, socially and emotionally. Most are reduced to a life of begging because they are seen as useless and unemployable. Please help provide sporting goods and sponsor tournaments for the Disability Sports Association, a project of Greatest Goal Ministries that allows Sierra Leoneans with disabilities to showcase their potential, develop self-esteem and change the overall attitude toward the disabled in their community.
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One community income generation poultry in the Northern Provinces. The project seeks to achieve the double bottom line of addressing the social and economic needs of selected communities using a sustainable agribusiness model that will create and accelerate employment and income generation for youths and women while utilising the complete value chain approach to ensure the business generates sufficient returns on investment.
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Irrespective of the massive campaign against animal cruelty, it still remains a concern in my country. Funding this initiative will provide the basis for devising animal cruelty prevention mechanisms that will substantially reduce animal cruelties and also improves their health. The community members too will benefit form this project. For instance, the award of scholarship to their children as a way of encouraging them to be kind to animals will help provide the child's right to education
Source: IATI Registry via d-portal
Enhancing the capacity of government and its partners to establish and operationalize a Food Security and Nutrition National Early Warning System (NEWS) both at national and district level
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Improve livelihoods in rural communities, in particular for youth, through increased access to renewable energy from solar and biomass resources.
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The goal of the Girls Leadership Mentoring and Training program is to mentor and develop girls (leaders), who will be proficient in leadership development, job skills and knowledge training, productivity, forward thinking and creativity. The program will actively engage monitoring and mentoring young girls in repeated cycles each lasting 3 years. This will be done through on-ground training, coaching and mentoring activities and online and social networking communities and engagement.
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The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' END7 campaign and Helen Keller International are teaming up to raise awareness and resources to eliminate lymphatic filariasis (also known as elephantiasis), a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that puts a terrible burden on the population of Sierra Leone.
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Two community income generation poultry in the Eastern and Northern Provinces. The project seeks to achieve the double bottom line of addressing the social and economic needs of selected communities using a sustainable agribusiness model that will create and accelerate employment and income generation for youths and women while utilisutilising the complete value chain approach to ensure the business generates sufficient returns on investment.
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The Government of Sierra Leone and its partners implement activities to promote the Right to Food and improve the quality of diets as part of the Small-holder Commercialization Programme and District Development Plans
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Implementation of the Comprehensive Country Assessment on Food Security in the context of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra Leone
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Ten years after the civil war, Sierra Leone is working to improve the nation's healthcare, especially for women and children. Obstetric fistula is a common problem. Many women aren't aware that a fistula can be repaired and they live lives of despair, shunned by their villages, alone and incontinent. PMC uses radio dramas to inform women of repair surgery, tell them about the free phone call to the "fistula hotline," or where to find a clinic, and help them return to a normal life.
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Daru, in the easternmost Kailahun District in Sierra Leone, is home to some of the most disenfranchised children in the world. Many were orphaned during the 11-year civil war, and treated as little more than indentured servants by their foster families. Our program will provide vocational training workshops in batik fabric-dyeing, and t-shirt and sign stencil printing for 50 orphaned youth in Daru. These workshops will provide the children with the materials and skills they need to survive
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Many families in Africa are unable to meet the basic needs of the children in their families. This unfortunately includes needs such as school uniforms, a mattress to sleep on at night, nutritious food, appropriate and safe lighting to study at night etc. This project targets these key areas by meeting these essential and critical needs. By doing this, the project is motivating and enabling the children to do better in school. The children are healthier and enabled to learn better.
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Batonga's mission is to support education for girls in Africa. This project focuses on transforming the lives of girls affected by the war in Sierra Leone through vocational training so that they may start their own businesses.
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The targeted project areas consist of large school dropouts who are victims of many unfortunate circumstances, the very awkward situation in which these youths find themselves need immediate special attention most certainly if given an opportunity by offering them special training for jobs and some skills to enable them become self-reliant. The expected result is that these youths will be of service to the nation and the problem of unemployment and poverty will be greatly curbed.
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Future For Children Sierra Leone will increase street children's educational support to 50 children in Freetown business District by providing tuition fees, learning materials, medicare and used clothing.
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The radio station wants to broadcast programs promoting peace and reconciliation. Programs will promote care for street children and orphans, campaign for youth employment, and provide information to adults about democratic processes.It will focus especially on encouraging youth to become peace ambassadors in schools and communities.
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The capacity building programme of the FAO will contribute to the overall Development Goal of the SCP/GAFSP to reduce rural poverty and household food insecurity on a sustainable basis. Outcome: the outcome of the FAO Technical Assistance within the GAFSP, therefore, is:Institutions, vertically and horizontally aligned with the SCP/GAFSP, increasingly apply best practices in management, organisation, finance and administration, and technical skills.
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The development objective of the project is to improve food security and nutrition as well as rural employment and incomes in Sierra Leone through the rehabilitation of the national seed programme which will improve the availability of high quality seeds of adaptable varieties to farmers and provide the foundation for a sustainable seed industry.
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Movement restrictions in the Ebola affected Countries of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia
Source: HDX
Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google's own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at risk. With such a certificate, an attacker could pose as the real site over an encrypted
Source: The Hacker News
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